The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Population growth, arable land and fresh water limits, and climate change have profound implications for the ability of agriculture to meet this century
Precision agriculture comprises a set of technologies that combines sensors, information systems, enhanced machinery, and informed management to optimize production by accounting for variability and uncertainties within agricultural systems. Adapting production inputs site-specifically within a field and individually for each animal allows better use of resources to maintain the quality …
John Vidal Nomadic herders who move their cattle ceaselessly across some of the harshest environments in the world in search of grazing land are vital for Africa
The continued absence of a working scientific system of agriculture management in Uttarakhand for more than eight years after State formation has resulted in creating a situation in which the traditional step-farming method is providing a non-profitable enterprise for the native farmers. It is pertinent to mention that more than …
A Mechanical Engineering degree from an Indian Institute of Technology is a passport to a wide horizon of opportunities for any student. But for R. Madhavan, who passed out of IIT-Madras in 1986 and took up farming as an industrial enterprise, it was a means to redefine the role of …
BHAWANIPATNA: Dambarudhar Gartia of Boringpadar village in Narla block harvested 90 quintals of paddy on three acres of land this kharif against 40 quintals during the previous season. This is despite fickle monsoon. He earned Rs 90,000 against an investment of around Rs 5,000. Gartia is not the only farmer …
Telling the farming community to make use of weather forecast and precision farming, Prof Anwar Alam, Vice-Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology- Kashmir (SKUAST-K), today said the same could be used to reduce loss in agriculture.
KRISHNAGIRI: Officials of the agriculture department have been instructed to produce short film/documentary on cultivation of paddy under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method and its success stories in the State with inputs from the beneficiaries. The short film/documentary would be screened to the public and in schools. Inspecting the …
With traditional preoccupation of Indian women with agriculture coming under gradual stress due to advent of new technologies and change in farming pattern, the Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA) is working hard to redefine the role of women in farm sector. Evidently, the last year drought also …
A field experiment was conducted during 2002-03 and 2003-04 at Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana to study the possible options for diversification of existing rice-wheat cropping system.
A committee has been set up under Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria to formulate organic policy in Madhya Pradesh. The second meeting of the committee will be held on Friday, at Government Agriculture Area, Phanda near Bhopal. The committee comprises experts of subjects related to agriculture. The …
Implementation of integrated agriculture methods can solve the problems of farmers, said Moodigere Agriculture University agriculture expert Dr J P Prasannakumar. Speaking after inaugurating a workshop on agriculture and technology organised by the Sri Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development Programme (SKDRDP) in association with Pragathi Bandhu SHGs at Doddapattanagere in Kadur …
The Israeli government has offered to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Himachal Pradesh for water management and renewable energy. This follows the keen interest shown by Chief Minister PK Dhumal and the team who are on a visit to Israel to study irrigation and poly-houses technology so as …
The zero-tillage drill helps farmers save on diesel and labour - it can lower overall sowing costs by 80% Surinder Sud / New Delhi November 17, 2009, 0:38 IST The specialised zero-tillage seed drill, which could sow seeds in fields without ploughing it, was introduced by the Mexico-based International Maize …
